The Turn of the Screw & in the Cage

This Modern Library Paperback Classics edition brings together one of literature's most famous ghost stories and one of Henry James's most unusual novellas. In The Turn of the Screw, a governess is haunted by ghosts from her young charges past; Virginia Woolf said of this masterpiece of psychological ambiguity and suggestion, We are afraid of something unnamed, of something, perhaps, in ourselves...Henry James...can still make us afraid of the dark.

In his rarely anthologized novella In the Cage, James brings his incomparable powers of observation to the story of a clever, rebellious heroine of Britain's lower middle class. Hortense Calisher, in her Introduction, calls it a delicious story, the more so because it confounds what we expect from James.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Modern Library
Published: 05/08/2001
ISBN: 9780375757402
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.45lbs
Size: 8.10h x 5.20w x 0.60d
Accelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 50685 / Turn of the Screw & in the Cage
Reading Level: 8.7 / Interest Level: Upper Grade / Point Value: 14